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Technical / December 6, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I had a problem with User Profile synchronisation not working any more. The service would be stuck ‘starting’ and I could not access the service page of the User Profile Service any more. A little investigation pointed me to an assembly problem; it was searching for Microsoft.ResourceManagement version 4.0.3531.2. I had no idea why. I
Technical / December 3, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 19
I’ve been struggling for a while to programmatically set BCS columns. Setting the column itself isn’t that hard, but it’s getting all the related fields to show data too that’s a challenge. There seems to be no out of the box method to do this, so I’ve created one myself. Without further ado, let’s get
Technical / October 20, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I had some users complaining about their Ribbon not working. When looking more closely, SharePoint was generating lot’s of JavaScript errors in IE8. I had no clue why (still don’t have really), but here are two solutions which you can try to fix this problem: In web.config, make sure the following section exists: <system.web.extensions> <scripting>
Social / September 20, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
It’s been a while since my last blog post, mostly due to a well deserved holiday (if I may say so). So now I’m back and I wanted to get your attention for two things. First, I’m on Twitter these days. Since you can’t beat the social revolution, you might as well join ’em right!?
Technical / August 16, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I never really looked into InfoPath untill SharePoint 2010 arrived. With 2010, customizing your item forms becomes a lot easier to do in combination with InfoPath. Yes, most of this was also possible with 2007, but the way to get there was a bit more complicated. Here’s some steps you can take if you want
Technical / July 23, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 3
I have a secured SSL site which I wanted to query with SPD (REST webservice). SPD gave me the well known ‘the server returned a non specific error’ message. After some investigation, I found the following error in the ULS logs: An operation failed because the following certificate has validation errors:\n\nSubject Name: CN=*.company.com, OU=PositiveSSL Wildcard,
Technical / July 15, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
If you create a Silverlight webpart and deploy it to SharePoint; it won’t gray out behind a default SharePoint popup. To fix this, you need to set the windowsless parameter to true (though this might affect performance a bit). To do this, edit the default SilverlightPluginGenerator.cs file and add the following line after line number
Technical / July 14, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
For some reason, the default implementation of the Silverlight webpart which comes with VS2010 doesn’t allow you to set the width to 100% (auto width). You’ll get an error saying “UnitType Percentage is not supported”. That’s kind of weird, since the only thing it really does is set the width for the surrounding object container
Technical / July 11, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
For a project I’m working on, I needed a way to roll-up data across multiple sites. There aren’t much ways of doing that, but one good way is using the SPSiteDataQuery object. This object, which can be used with the object model (not the client ones unfortunately), can be used to fire queries to SharePoint
Technical / July 2, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
My notebook runs 64-bit Windows 7. That’s cool, because you can develop SharePoint 2010 stuff on it without the need to run a virtual machine (which eats up extra memory slowing the whole thing down again). But I had some troubles with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 64-bit. The datasheet view, which you can use